Parts of Maine got Paul LePage elected. Suburban Toronto got Rob Ford elected. You can’t make this a sectional issue.
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He’s protesting Blacks protesting whites because he’s white and he hates black people.
It’s actually pretty simple.
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I think it is called spreading panic.
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We’re gonna need a bigger basket.
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Maybe we should wall off Kansas.
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Welcome back to the private sector clown meat.
The whole clip is worth a look. Right after the quoted language, he starts talking about how this is a welfare state and the “trillions of dollars spent to keep people in bondage.” He then waxes eloquently about how this is a “country of opportunity, freedom and liberty,” and how people (i.e., his ancestors), had the “freedom to come to this country” and that the people who are still coming can “put up their capital” and become successful. All said without a hint of the irony that these people are actually protesting because they have been systematically, and institutionally excluded from this “American Dream” since their ancestors were brought forcibly to this country to serve Mr. Pittinger’s ancestors “in bondage.” He is totally oblivious to his own racism.
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I wish it was just the elderly…
So you would have preferred that slavery remain in the South. Duly noted.
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The interviewer got this quote because he wouldn’t accept the congressman’s earlier bullshit answer trying to blame the Civil Rights act of 1964 and LBJ. The whole clip really is worth a look.
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California where I live, one of the bluest states, in the country, with a statewide economy that is the world’s sixth largest doesn’t belong in the same country as Mississippi. But the country’s not going to split apart because of it. There’ll just be more griping about it with the two parties dug in and in stalemate…
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Well, what I mean is that folks who came up before ubiquitous cell phones really are not sensitized to that ubiquity, and thus get zapped. Which is good.
Dear Mr. Moderator,
I have noticed that when there is a reply directly following a post it is not marked as such as in this case where I was replying to @psyclone.
Anyone else notice this system anomaly?
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Then you can appreciate this BBC radio drama even more than I did:
Men Who Sleep in Cars
The episode is no longer available as streaming audio on the BBC site, but somebody who loved it posted the audio on YouTube (no video – just a black screen).
I can strongly recommend the BBC Radio 4 Drama of the Week podcast. The quality of the work they routinely broadcast will make you weep over the relative wasteland that is US radio.
They generally keep only a couple episodes available at a time, so use the subscribe button at the link to capture episodes for later listening.
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That is an interesting, if nihilistic, perspective. I hope you are wrong. And I agree that it isn’t as simple as dividing into two separate nations. It may have been in 1860 (though I don’t think it was then either), but it certainly isn’t now. I live in Oregon and here it is two states separated by the urban/rural divide that is common throughout the US. No, we’re too much of a patchwork nation to simply divide in half geographically.
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It’s rather annoying.
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Well he’s already doing it in life.
Yes, and I am unable to think of a good reason for stripping the reply marking. There are many times when it isn’t immediately clear from the text that such posts are replies.
Definitely. But you know you have a pretty good life if you are able to notice such annoyances.
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I gave you a like for the content and for your reinvention of “shit-eating grin”
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I wholeheartedly agree, and I think in the long term this is going to be very good for the country. Even John Roberts must be aware that we have a problem now; maybe we can finally have the national discussion on race that we’ve been avoiding for two hundred and fifty years.
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